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ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS - The Wonder of War in the Holy Land

Title: The Wonder of War in the Holy Land
Description: Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1919. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The spine of the book and bits of the front and rear covers have spots of ground-in dirt and some light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a beginning two inch split to the inside front spine hinge. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some noticeable foxing and toning to the edges of the text block. "Francis Rolt-Wheeler was born Francis William Wheeler in Forest Hills, England. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1903, working as a journalist. Starting around 1906, Wheeler made a name for himself -- as Francis Rolt-Wheeler -- as a writer of books, mostly for boys, like The Boy with the United States Survey and The Boy with the US Trappers. He also published a 10 volume Science-History of the Universe, books for children with topics ranging from Aztecs to dinosaurs to Thomas Alva Edison, a series of books on aspects of the first World War, and some poetry and drama. He traveled globally quite a bit during the 1920s and left the US for the Middle East, where he began his second career as an occultist. The Rolt-Wheeler surname was used by both Francis and his sister Ethel, a poet, writer, reincarnationist and Fellow of the Theosophical Society. " (from LibriVox). Very Good .

Keywords: World War I Francis Rolt-wheeler Religion Holy Land

Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 50147

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